Marion Winik

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Check out the Weekly Reader, where you can hear about a couple of good books in just four minutes every week. Access it on any podcast app or listen live on WYPR, 88.1 on your FM dial and streaming at wypr.org: Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, Thursdays at 5:45 pm, and Sundays at 4:30 pm.		7/27/2026: Doglover's special:Wally and I are back from our amazing transatlantic journey to Spain. It was great, though not exactly smooth sailing. Part I is here, and Part II is here. 7/27/2026: No paywall on these: • Wonderful article by Suzy Dunn about how Ann Patchett shouted out The Big Book of the Dead on Instagram. • Oprah Daily round-up of very readable books • Oprah Daily summer reading roundup • Oprah Daily spring reading roundup • Oprah Daily women-in-midlife reading roundup 7/27/2026: Celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Comes Love. New edition and new audiobook available wherever you like to buy such things. Things to Read • "I Knew He Was Gay and I Married Him Anyway," for Oprah Daily • Journalist Jane Winik Sartwell interviews her mom, for Writer's Digest • On People.com: A Marriage, An AIDS Diagnosis, and A Death By Suicide: The Story of First Comes Love • On Lit Hub: Read or listen to the new introduction, Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction • In Publishers Weekly: Twelve Memoirs of Widowhood • "My Life as a Memoirist" for The Shit They Don't Tell You About Writing substack • Audiofile review, very nice • Leslie Gray Streeter's article in The Baltimore Banner • On Baltimore Fishbowl: Happy 30th Birthday, First Comes Love: Behind the Scenes of the New Audiobook Things to Listen To or Watch • Tom Hall interview on WYPR's Midday • PRH podcast, "This is the Author" • Jason Blitman's superfun "Gays Reading" podcast • Dani Shapiro's podcast Family Secrets, "Should We Do This?" • Marion Roach's QWERTY • Tim Castano's Lit Trip Add your email to Marion's mailing list: Browse the Bohemian Rhapsody archive — running since 2011 on Baltimore Fishbowl. Marion's "Lives" columns for The New York Times Magazine: "Grand Theft Litho" and "A Mother of A Certain Age". An archive of Marion's commentaries for All Things Considered. Lots more essays and articles in the links archive and work archive.
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